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French energy giant Total's natural gas project in northern Mozambique is now safe from terrorist groups after militants launched deadly attacks on the project, according to local reports quoting a spokesman for Mozambique's army on Friday. Authorities have confirmed dozens of deaths in the attack by Daesh-linked terrorists that began last week in the coastal city of Palma, in a district near a billion-dollar gas project designed to change Mozambique's economy. The situation around Palma is still very…

French energy giant Total has evacuated all its personnel from its natural gas project in northern Mozambique on Friday while a spokesman for the Mozambican army declared the project safe from terrorist groups after militants launched deadly attacks on the project, according to local reports. Authorities have confirmed dozens of deaths in the attack by Daesh-linked terrorists that began last week in the coastal city of Palma, in a district near a billion-dollar gas project designed to change…

Dozens of people were killed in coordinated extremist attacks in northern Mozambique's Palma city, the government said on Sunday, four days after the raid was launched, forcing the evacuation of thousands of survivors to safety in the provincial capital Pemba. Seven people were killed in an ambush during an operation to evacuate them from a hotel where they had sought refuge, it is said. "Last Wednesday, a group of terrorists sneaked into ... Palma and launched operations that resulted in the cowardly…

At least seven soldiers were killed when warriors from the Somali terrorist group al-Shabab stormed a jail in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland early Friday, police and the group said. Al-Shabab said it had released at least 400 prisoners, many of them members, in its attack on the main prison in Bosaso, Puntland's largest city, early Friday. The authorities did not confirm that figure. "Last night, many well-armed men attacked us from different directions. We fought back but eventually they…

The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) launched a $ 12 million humanitarian appeal late Thursday to improve deteriorating health and safety conditions for women and girls in northeastern Mozambique. In a statement, the UN authority said it was urgent to provide life-saving sexual and reproductive health services to 330,000 women, girls and young people affected by the humanitarian crisis in the province of Cabo Delgado, as well as by the secondary effects of the coronavirus pandemic . An armed…